The Clapham Sect, or Clapham Saints, were a group of social reformers associated with Holy Trinity Clapham in the period from the 1780s to the 1840s. Despite...
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Society, supported by members of the Clapham Sect, who met under the guidance of John Venn, the Rector of Clapham. By contrast, an opponent of Wilberforce...
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was an English evangelical minister and one of the founders of the Clapham Sect, an influential evangelical group within the Church of England. He was...
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Clapham, London. Completed in 1776, it was the base for the so-called Clapham Sect who worshipped there. It is located on the north side of Clapham Common...
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detached from metropolitan London. Some later residents were members of the Clapham Sect of evangelical reformers and slavery abolitionists, including William...
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Charles Grant (British East India Company) (category Clapham Sect)
member of parliament (MP), and was an energetic member of the Clapham Sect. The "Clapham Sect" were a group of social activists who spoke out about the moral...
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William Wilberforce (category Clapham Sect)
frustration and hostility. He was supported by fellow members of the Clapham Sect, among whom was his best friend and cousin Henry Thornton. Wilberforce...
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Henry Thornton (reformer) (category Clapham Sect)
fluctuations in the value of the pound. Thornton was one of the founders of the Clapham Sect of evangelical reformers and a foremost campaigner for the abolition...
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Affair. Opposite Northside, on Clapham Common, is Holy Trinity Church, the place of worship that was home to 'The Clapham Sect' the abolitionist group, one...
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Thomas Gisborne (category Clapham Sect)
1846) was an English Anglican priest and poet. He was a member of the Clapham Sect, who fought for the abolition of the slave trade in England. Gisborne...
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among the working class. The Clapham Sect was a group of Church of England evangelicals and social reformers based in Clapham, London; they were active 1780s–1840s)...
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Hannah More (category Clapham Sect)
Hannah More (2 February 1745 – 7 September 1833) was an English religious writer, philanthropist, poet, and playwright in the circle of Johnson, Reynolds...
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Charles Simeon (category Clapham Sect)
Charles Simeon (24 September 1759 – 13 November 1836) was an English evangelical Anglican cleric. He was born at Reading, Berkshire, in 1759 and baptised...
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Zachary Macaulay (category Clapham Sect)
the African Institution. He and Wilberforce also became members of the Clapham Sect of evangelical Whigs, that included Henry Thornton and Edward Eliot,...
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John Shore, 1st Baron Teignmouth (category Clapham Sect)
the Lords. Shore became a prominent member of the Clapham sect: from 1802 to 1808 he lived at Clapham. He then moved to London, where he passed the remainder...
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of the Church Missionary Society, grandson of Henry Venn Henry Venn (Clapham Sect) (1725–1797), English evangelical minister Horace Venn (1892–1953), English...
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Granville Sharp (category Clapham Sect)
taken by others such as Thomas Clarkson, William Wilberforce and the Clapham Sect. Sharp, however, did not see the final abolition as he died on 6 July...
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John Venn (priest) (category Clapham Sect)
figure of the group of religious philanthropists known as the Clapham Sect. He was born at Clapham to the south-west of central London, while his father Henry...
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Thomas Babington (category Clapham Sect)
was an English philanthropist and politician. He was a member of the Clapham Sect, alongside more famous abolitionists such as William Wilberforce and...
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October 1800, the son of Reverend Zachary Macaulay, a member of the Clapham Sect, former governor of the colony of Sierra Leone and anti-slavery activist...
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committed activists. Many of this group were members of the so-called Clapham Sect of evangelical social reformers and Porteus willingly lent his support...
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James Stephen (British politician) (category Clapham Sect)
Several of his friendships among the abolitionists were made in Clapham (home to the Clapham Sect) where he had moved from Sloane Square in 1797. Other connections...
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Lambeth near to Clapham Junction railway station and Clapham Common and Clapham Park and was home to the Clapham Sect and the former Clapham parliamentary...
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Henry Venn (1725–1797), founder of the small, but highly influential Clapham Sect in Britain John Newton (1725–1807), Scottish clergyman, author of Amazing...
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Quaker members,[citation needed] and Wilberforce's fellow members of the Clapham Sect were subscribers to the society as well. Director of the Bank of England...
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John Thornton (philanthropist) (category People from Clapham)
A Sect that Moved the World – Three Generations of Clapham Saints and Philanthropist, London: Charles H. Kelly, (1907) Tomkins, Stephen. The Clapham Sect...
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Trinity Church, which was associated with the Clapham Sect in the early nineteenth century. The Clapham Sect, whose members included William Wilberforce...
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Church's Ministry Among Jewish People (category Clapham Sect)
leading evangelical Anglicans, including members of the influential Clapham Sect such as William Wilberforce, and Charles Simeon, desired to promote Christianity...
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the Church Missionary Society (CMS) in 1799, with other members of the Clapham Sect including John Venn – determined to improve the treatment of indigenous...
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supported by members of the Clapham Sect, a group of activist Anglicans who met under the guidance of John Venn, the Rector of Clapham. Their number included...
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